Jeffrey Epstein was a billionaire financier and sex offender who was found dead of an apparent suicide in his jail cell in 2019, but there have long been questions about where exactly he got his money, and why he was able to hobnob with some of the most famous people on the planet. And now, a story has emerged from the Wall Street Journal that sheds new light on Epstein s life and how he got it all started. Bill Gates had an affair with Jeffrey Epstein, and Bill Gates may have been the most powerful man in the world to know him, because Jeffrey Epstein had a black book with a list of names like Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, Bill Gates, Hillary Clinton, and many others, but where exactly did he get his money? And why did he have access to it? And what was it in his black book that made him so valuable to the rich and famous people he was hanging out with? And how was he able to get access to so much of that money, even when he was in so much trouble with the law? And how did he manage to get away with such a massive amount of crimes? with no one knowing exactly what he was doing? and no one being able to stop him from getting away with it and get out of jail at all? This is a story that could change the way we see the world or at least one of the world s most powerful people . a story from The New York Times. and the New York Post on this week's front page in this week s front page story on Jeffrey Epstein's little black book. in the latest edition of the story from the WSJ. The story is a fascinating, and it s a story you won t want to miss! the story you need to listen to find out what s in the black book, because it s in that black book if you haven t read the book, it s worth checking out! and if you don t have it, you re not going to miss it. And if you do, you ll definitely want to do so listen to the full story on the next episode of the podcast on the podcast, The Dark Side of the Internet, right here this is the link to the book you ve been waiting for. , right here on the internet, and you ll get a copy of the book that s out there.
00:00:00.000Alrighty, so ever since 2019, when Jeffrey Epstein was found dead of an apparent suicide by hanging in his jail cell, there's been a lot of speculation about what exactly happened to Jeffrey Epstein.
00:00:09.000Obviously, the big joke meme online is that Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself, but there are serious questions as to whether Jeffrey Epstein actually killed himself, considering that he said previously that He was not going to kill himself, and then he apparently hanged himself in a jail that was supposed to be secure in the first place.
00:00:23.000But there have been a lot of questions surrounding Jeffrey Epstein for years, because Jeffrey Epstein hobnobbed with all the richest and most famous people on the planet, and nobody had any idea exactly where Jeffrey Epstein had gotten his money.
00:00:35.000And nobody knew why it was that Jeffrey Epstein, who was in serious trouble with the law in the mid-2000s, was still able to gather all sorts of attention and credibility from some of the richest and wealthiest people and most famous people On the planet!
00:00:49.000All those questions have been percolating in the background.
00:00:52.000So, as early as 2020, 2019, 2020, there were serious questions about where exactly Jeffrey Epstein had gotten all of his money.
00:01:00.000There was talk about the idea that he had a 70-acre secluded island, that he had multiple homes all over the place, that he had supposedly amassed a fortune of 500 million pounds, which amounts to something like 700 million dollars, and it is very unclear where exactly he made that money because he was fired for Poor performance in his early academic career.
00:01:21.000And then he ended up at Bear Stearns and then he worked there as a trader and then a partner for a long time.
00:01:24.000But then he had breached security violations and then he left his job.
00:01:29.000And then he set up a consulting firm called Intercontinental Assets Group.
00:01:32.000And it is totally unclear where exactly the money came in, but suddenly he was worth, you know, half a billion dollars or more.
00:01:40.000And nobody knew where that money had come from.
00:01:42.000And if, again, you look at the timeline of Jeffrey Epstein's life, it is a very mysterious timeline.
00:01:47.000He started in the 1990s this financial management firm, which included the CEO of Victoria's Secret as a client, according to CBS News.
00:01:53.000In the 2000s, he continued to invest tens of millions of dollars into various funds, including a fund that was found to be leveraged 17 to 1, and that helped to eventually lead Bear Stearns into collapse in 2008.
00:02:06.000In March 2005, a 14-year-old girl became the earliest underage victim to formally accuse Epstein of molestation, citing an incident at his Palm Beach mansion.
00:02:15.000It took 10 years, 2015, before investigators executed a search warrant on Epstein's Florida home as the case brought forward several other teenage sex victims.
00:02:24.000But in 2006, police were charging Epstein with multiple counts of unlawful sex acts in a minor.
00:02:28.000State Attorney Barry Krischer referred the case to a grand jury.
00:02:30.000The grand jury heard from only one accuser in June of 2006.
00:02:34.000In July 2006, after the Palm Beach grand jury, the FBI opened a federal investigation.
00:02:39.000In June of 2008, after more than a year of investigation and bargaining between the two legal sides, Epstein finally appeared in a Florida courtroom and ended up pleading guilty to one count of solicitation of prostitution and one count of solicitation of prostitution of a minor under the age of 18.
00:02:51.000He got an 18 month sentence and he was registered as a sex offender.
00:02:56.000And then he began work release in jail as early as October of 2008.
00:03:00.000By July 2009, he was given early release from jail completely, and he never served time in a federal prison at all.
00:03:31.000Well, now we have a story that has emerged from the Wall Street Journal that really is shocking only in the sense...
00:03:37.000That it's precisely what you expected, but the fact that it took this long for it to be uncovered is in fact rather surprising, and it serves as the foundation for the generalized theory that Jeffrey Epstein was essentially a blackmail specialist who must have had support of some sort of government, because the fact is that everyone apparently knew exactly what he was doing, and he escaped prosecution for a very, very long time.
00:03:58.000The reason I say this is because the story of what he did to Bill Gates here is truly an astonishing one.
00:04:02.000According to the Wall Street Journal over the weekend, Jeffrey Epstein discovered that Bill Gates had an affair with a Russian bridge player and later appeared to use his knowledge to threaten one of the world's richest men, according to people familiar with the matter.
00:04:13.000The Microsoft co-founder met the woman around 2010 when she was in her 20s.
00:04:16.000Epstein met her in 2013 and later paid for her to attend a software coding school.
00:04:20.000In 2017, Epstein emailed Gates and asked to be reimbursed for the cost of the course, according to one of the people familiar with the matter.
00:04:27.000The email came after the convicted sex offender had struggled and failed to persuade Gates to participate in a multi-billion dollar charitable fund Epstein tried to establish with JPMorgan Chase.
00:04:36.000The implication, it was pretty clear, was that if Epstein did not get the money from Gates, then he would reveal the affair.
00:04:42.000So again, the idea here is that he uncovered an affair that Bill Gates had had with this woman in early 2010s.
00:04:49.000And then Epstein later met her, found out about the story, and then paid for her college education, her software coding education, simply so he could then go to Bill Gates and shake him down, pretending that he was being reimbursed for that when in fact he was actually just being paid to shut down the blackmail.
00:05:04.000A spokeswoman for Gates said, Mr. Gates met with Epstein solely for a philanthropic purpose.
00:05:08.000Having failed repeatedly to draw Mr. Gates beyond these matters, Epstein tried unsuccessfully to leverage a past relationship to threaten Mr. Gates.
00:05:15.000So that is Bill Gates acknowledging full well that Epstein was blackmailing him.
00:05:19.000Now again, this is not a giant shock, because this is probably what Epstein was doing with pretty much anyone.
00:05:24.000He had these very, very lucrative relationships with some of the richest, most famous perverts on the planet.
00:05:30.000I mean, there's a reason that people are flying to and from Epstein Island, where he was pretty overtly trafficking in underage girls.
00:05:39.000Mila Antonova, the Russian bridge player in question, declined to comment on Gates and said she didn't know who Epstein was when they met.
00:05:44.000She said, I had no idea he was a criminal or had any ulterior motive.
00:05:47.000I just thought he was a successful businessman and wanted to help.
00:05:51.000She added, I'm disgusted with Epstein and what he did.
00:05:55.000But again, this demonstrates exactly how Epstein was operating.
00:06:00.000He met with everybody around Bill Gates, apparently.
00:06:06.000And then, while he was working on this charitable fund with JPMorgan Chase, he finally met in 2013 with Gates and other Norwegian officials visiting Epstein's townhouse.
00:06:13.000Epstein told one former Gates Foundation employee that he knew these Norwegian officials and could help Gates win a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to eradicate polio.
00:06:21.000At which point, Gates and Epstein met together in March in Strasbourg, France.
00:06:25.000That September, Epstein scheduled a meeting with Gates and others at his townhouse.
00:06:29.000Now again, so it looks like he would make a connection with somebody, and then he would dig up dirt on that person, and then he would blackmail that person.
00:06:34.000And this is not the only story that has emerged about Jeffrey Epstein over the course of the last couple of months alone.
00:06:40.000It emerged a little bit earlier this month that Jeffrey Epstein helped move $270,000 from Noam Chomsky, the wild left linguist.
00:06:48.000And he also paid $150,000 to Bard College president Leon Botstein, according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:06:53.000Apparently, he had financial dealings with the two academics he had met with them multiple times as well.
00:06:59.000Now again, we still do not have the entire list of what exactly Jeffrey Epstein was doing with all these people, but the baseline assumption has to be that if you had repeated contacts with Jeffrey Epstein over the course of years, there was a good shot that dude had dirt on you, and that he was shaking you down for money.
00:07:12.000Remember, at the exact same time that he was shaking Bill Gates down for money, Bill Gates was pretty openly saying that he was not being blackmailed by Epstein.
00:07:19.000In fact, here is Bill Gates saying just that.
00:07:22.000Epstein had a way of sexually compromising people.
00:07:25.000Is that what Melinda was warning you about?
00:07:42.000And the relationship between the Foundation and Epstein?
00:07:45.000There never was any relationship of any kind.
00:07:47.000Okay, so that is Bill Gates pretty much openly lying to journalists, saying, I was never shaken down by Epstein, we were just the best of friends.
00:07:54.000Which raises a question about everybody else who says that they were best of friends with Jeffrey Epstein and raises the further question as to just how much Epstein was being protected by people in positions of power.
00:08:04.000I mean, the answer has to be some because otherwise, how could he get away with this for decades on end being a registered sex offender?
00:08:10.000Well, in just a second, we'll turn to the 2024 presidential race, but I think suffice it to say that a lot of the conspiracy theories that people have about people in positions of elite power who are working with one another or who are blackmailing one another or who are engaging in Improper behavior, behind closed doors, and then are making themselves susceptible to blackmail by state actors?
00:08:32.000When the full Epstein scandal eventually breaks, which I think it probably will, when that breaks, it's going to bring down a lot of worlds.
00:08:37.000Okay, we'll get to the 2024 race in just one moment.
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00:10:19.000Kind of the base is looking for right now is a candidate with edge, a candidate who's willing to cut, a candidate who is rough and is willing to battle with the media.
00:10:27.000And the question for Scott is whether he is up to something like that, whether he is too conciliatory in demeanor, whether in fact he appears to be somebody who's a go along to get along type, you know, that makes a huge difference in a Republican primary these days.
00:10:40.000So Scott is trying to run a different sort of campaign, sort of the bright sunny optimistic campaign.
00:11:25.000you Biden and the radical left are attacking every single rung of the ladder that helped me climb.
00:11:34.000And that's why I'm announcing today that I'm running for president.
00:11:45.000Okay, so, you know, I'm not a big fan of the affect, I'll be honest with you.
00:11:54.000I mean, if we're going to sort of analyze affect when you are running, that's not an amazing affect when you have to yell into the microphone to generate excitement.
00:12:00.000And I can't say there's a huge amount of buzz about Tim Scott outside of sort of the intelligentsia of the Republican Party.
00:12:05.000Again, I find Tim Scott a very, very appealing person.
00:12:08.000I think he's a terrific senator from South Carolina.
00:12:11.000I think that if you have to kind of categorize him with the rest of the Republican candidates
00:12:15.000right now, he probably goes in the Nikki Haley, Mike Pence category, meaning people who are
00:12:19.000not Ron DeSantis who are sort of hoping that DeSantis falls down on the job.
00:12:23.000And again, the question is whether he can actually get a crowd going.
00:12:26.000He tried it a couple of times during his opening speech.
00:12:29.000People were making fun of him online because he had what seemed to be sort of a Howard
00:12:56.000Again, is the enthusiasm and the excitement there or does it seem to be somewhat manufactured?
00:13:03.000It doesn't seem like there is a lot of kind of call and plan for Scott to be the guy, but there are a lot of Republicans, coastal Republicans in particular, who are looking for somebody who isn't so abrasive.
00:13:13.000The problem, of course, is that the base is looking for somebody who's abrasive because they feel like they're under constant assault from the media, which they are.
00:13:19.000They feel like they are under constant assault from Joe Biden, which they are.
00:13:23.000And so the question is, who is going to be able to participate in a knife fight?
00:13:25.000Again, the reason that Donald Trump became the nominee In 2016 is largely because Republicans had run a couple of candidates who in affect were much more like Tim Scott.
00:13:35.000John McCain in 2008 was trying to run an upbeat positive campaign and then of course Mitt Romney tried to do the same thing.
00:13:40.000Kind of too smooth, not rough around the edges, not willing to get combative.
00:13:45.000The question for Tim Scott is whether he is able to get combative and kind of smooth, almost use some sandpaper on himself in order to become Less smooth, just in terms of his personal affect, the way that he approaches politics.
00:14:03.000And again, being abrasive is a quality of authenticity.
00:14:07.000It's not really clear, by the way, that Scott has any sort of attack plan on Trump.
00:14:13.000And so he becomes also the latest Republican candidate not to have an attack plan with regard to President Trump.
00:14:18.000In the early polling, Scott isn't even, he's not even registering at this point.
00:14:24.000But, again, I think that the plan for a lot of the Republicans who are in the race who are not Ron DeSantis is basically stand aside, let Trump rip down DeSantis, maybe you rip down DeSantis too, and then you step into the gap.
00:14:33.000If you are an anti-Trump person, this strategy was tried back in 2016 to no avail.
00:14:38.000Every other Republican candidate basically said, I'm going to avoid hitting Trump, and I'm going to hit Ted Cruz, I'm going to hit Marco Rubio.
00:14:44.000And then everybody else collapsed, and the only one standing was Trump.
00:14:48.000Again, Scott is starting from way behind, but he does have some moneyed friends who are in this race.
00:14:55.000There are a couple of Republican colleagues who have already endorsed his bid, that'd be South Dakota Senators John Thune and Mike Rounds.
00:15:00.000Rounds called Scott the closest to Ronald Reagan that you will ever see, and Thune gave the opening prayer on Monday at Scott's campaign launch rally.
00:15:08.000He's also accepted something like $30 million from Larry Ellison.
00:15:12.000Bill Haslam is serving as Scott's national campaign co-chair.
00:15:47.000Then came the hefty activation fees, four-line requirements, and of course, the binding contract.
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00:17:22.000I'm sure there are lots of people in life he's wished good luck to.
00:17:24.000But when... anybody who threatens Donald Trump's interests, have you ever heard him be magnanimous and generous with other people running for president as a general rule?
00:17:32.000So far, he's been magnanimous about Vivek Ramaswamy.
00:17:47.000And again, the reason that is the guy is because Ron DeSantis is combative.
00:17:52.000Ron DeSantis does have a quality record in the state of Florida.
00:17:56.000Ron DeSantis is to his right on pretty much every issue.
00:17:59.000He has a ton of money ready to go in the bank.
00:18:02.000And so I think Trump, like pretty much everybody else, is assuming that DeSantis is going to be sort of his chief rival for the nomination.
00:18:08.000DeSantis, of course, has not even declared yet, and Trump is spending every waking moment thinking about Ron DeSantis.
00:18:15.000Trump, one of two partners thinking about Ron DeSantis almost full time.
00:18:19.000The other partner, of course, are members of the media.
00:18:21.000And you can see by the overwhelming wave of antipathy for DeSantis, they really want Trump.
00:18:26.000I'm talking about everybody here from CNN and Politico all the way up to Matt Drudge and Drudge Report.
00:18:31.000Drudge Report is running pretty much every hit piece he can find on Ron DeSantis at this point.
00:18:36.000I don't know if that's for traffic or whether Drudge really likes Trump or what the story is here, but there is pretty obviously a lot of support for Donald Trump and a lot of antipathy toward Ron DeSantis in the way that the media are covering Trump.
00:18:47.000So the big fake story over the weekend targeting DeSantis, and there's one nearly every weekend now, some idiot story targeting DeSantis that doesn't make a whole hell of a lot of sense.
00:18:54.000The one from last week, of course, was the idea that Disney had canceled this billion dollar project in Orlando and then it turned out, well, actually Disney was ready to cancel that back in November because it didn't
00:19:02.000pencil out for them since they've been losing money hand over fist. They lost four million
00:19:06.000subscribers and half their stock value over the course of the last years. So why exactly would
00:19:10.000they build a one billion dollar headquarters in Orlando that was completely separate from their creative
00:19:16.000team in California? But they cancelled it and then they claimed, Bob Iger did, that it was Rhonda Sands
00:19:19.000and the media just totally ran with it. Oh, he must, that, he's being totally honest with you.
00:19:22.000It's not a lie at all. It must be totally. Okay, so today's lie of the day comes courtesy of
00:19:27.000the NAACP, which of course is a wild left-wing organization.
00:19:46.000We are perfectly happy here without you.
00:19:47.000And if you could just stay where you are in your miserable blue cities, we would be very happy to not have you here clogging up the traffic lanes and bringing your perverse views of politics down here.
00:19:57.000We are perfectly happy in our red state paradise down here in Florida.
00:20:00.000So if you would prefer to stay up there, please enjoy yourself in New York.
00:20:03.000Please, if you're in California, still enjoy yourself.
00:20:05.000Really enjoy the homelessness and crime and high taxes.
00:20:18.000Now, that of course is incredibly silly.
00:20:20.000It's the same NAACP that was complaining that Jim Crow 2.0 was being built in Georgia while black voters were being registered at the highest rate ever.
00:20:29.000So they have no credibility on these issues.
00:20:31.000But credibility doesn't matter when the media is trying to break a politician.
00:20:33.000Right now they're going after Ron DeSantis because they're hoping for Trump to be the nominee.
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00:21:50.000Okay, so according to CNN, The NAACP is warning people of color about traveling to Florida.
00:21:56.000They issued this travel advisory, quote, in direct response to DeSantis' aggressive attempts to erase black history and to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in Florida schools, the group said Saturday in a statement.
00:22:05.000Now remember, Florida requires the teaching of black history.
00:22:15.000As far as diversity, equity, and inclusion, what that means is that you're not allowed to essentially use affirmative action programs or Ibram X. Kendi anti-racism training in any sort of publicly funded program.
00:22:29.000What does that have to do with the safety of black Americans?
00:22:54.000Well, the governor has perfected the art of doing stunts to gain campaign contributions.
00:23:01.000Unfortunately, this will impact people's lives.
00:23:04.000We should not use race or othering as a tool to weaponize against people.
00:23:10.000And unfortunately for a large percentage of Floridians, that's what he has done.
00:23:15.000Therefore, We are advising African Americans and others that if you travel to Florida, beware that your life is not valued, that we have a political landscape that could cause harm as we prepare for the 2024 elections.
00:23:31.000All this proves the NAACP is just a Democratic Party apparatus.
00:23:39.000If the NAACP has been relegated to targeting racism by suggesting that if you travel to Florida that your life is at stake, they're a joke at this point.
00:23:45.000And they clearly are a joke, by the way.
00:23:47.000How much of a joke are the members of the NAACP board?
00:23:50.000At least five members of the NAACP board have enjoyed vacationing in Florida under Governor DeSantis, according to Matt Wolking.
00:23:57.000Despite their recent warning that others should avoid traveling to the state.
00:24:00.000That includes NAACP Board Vice Chair Karen Boykin-Towns, who went to a lovely Florida vacation in April of 2021.
00:24:06.000It has also been enjoyed by Claude Cummings, Jr., another NAACP board member.
00:24:14.000Also, NAACP board member Teresa Deer visited Florida under Governor Ron DeSantis, said that she was having a delightful time.
00:24:21.000NAACP board member Michael Curry enjoyed time in Miami, Florida under Governor DeSantis as well.
00:24:25.000And NAACP board member Scott Estali loves traveling around the great state of Florida under Governor DeSantis.
00:24:33.000So obviously, he is living in just virulent fear that he's going to be murdered on the streets of Florida because Governor DeSantis does not truck with diversity, equity, and inclusion.
00:24:46.000Perhaps my favorite take on this comes courtesy of an MSNBC guest who is now suggesting that she went to Florida.
00:24:53.000She's a lesbian black woman, but she went to Florida for spring break, but she did so at risk to her own life, which is what you normally do on spring break down to Florida.
00:25:02.000I think it was extremely clever and I really appreciate the NAACP's guidance on this issue.
00:25:09.000I just took my family to spring break in Florida recently and I think about all of the folks who traveled there for sun and joy and peace and restoration.
00:25:20.000And to be reminded that actually this is getting to the point where Florida is about to be a terrorist state to many of us here in America, certainly as a lesbian, as a black woman.
00:25:30.000I don't want to have anything to do with the place.
00:25:34.000So then why did you go there for spring break?
00:25:38.000Saisha Mills, that's not... Do you go to terrorist states normally for a vacation?
00:25:42.000You know, places where you literally are going to be murdered for who you are?
00:25:45.000Is that something that you typically do?
00:25:47.000For actual vacation, not for ideological reasons.
00:25:49.000You just head on down to Florida because you as a lesbian black woman have your life in danger?
00:25:52.000Of course, this is unbelievably silly.
00:25:54.000Representative Byron Donald of Florida, he slammed the NAACP over all of this, as he should.
00:25:59.000The NAACP hereby issues a travel advisory to African Americans and other people of color regarding the hostility towards African Americans in Florida.
00:26:15.000We should be focused on making sure people actually have the opportunity to achieve, which Florida is actually doing and thriving in way better than other states.
00:26:24.000Let's say New York or California or Washington State.
00:26:28.000We're doing a significantly better job helping black Americans succeed.
00:26:54.000And that's coming from somebody who's already endorsed President Trump.
00:26:57.000It's one of the dumbest political hits I've ever seen.
00:26:59.000By the way, I should mention at this point that 17% of Florida's population is black and that Florida's black immigrant population saw an 81% growth from 2000 to 2019 with the addition of 350,000 people.
00:27:11.000That growth is larger than the entire 2019 black immigrant population of Colorado, Arizona, Washington, Nevada, Indiana, and Ohio combined.
00:27:20.000So yeah, clearly you're taking your life in your hands if you're a black person in Florida.
00:27:25.000That was not the only ridiculous hit on DeSantis over the weekend.
00:27:28.000Politico, which has just become essentially a talking points outlet for the Democratic Party as well, put out an article targeting Casey DeSantis.
00:27:36.000Now, let me, I've met Casey several times.
00:27:39.000She's one of the most charming people on earth.
00:28:13.000He's the one who compared her to Lady Macbeth.
00:28:16.000Stone's hyperbolic charge is part of a broader effort on the part of Trump to kill in the crib the candidacy they consider their greatest threat.
00:28:23.000They recently have scored a series of key, albeit early, strategic wins, a flurry of in-state endorsements, for instance, contributing to the perception of a novice faltering dissent that's also visible in a slide in early primary polls.
00:28:33.000In the tragic drama, of course, Lady Macbeth prods her husband to kill the king so she can be the queen.
00:28:37.000At this juncture, the literary analogy only goes so far.
00:28:40.000And then that's because DeSantis isn't going so far after Trump, really.
00:28:46.000But they then quote a bunch of former DeSantis administration staffers, quote, She sees ghosts in every corner.
00:28:52.000She's more paranoid than he is, said a second staffer.
00:29:22.000Now, there's only one problem with this theory, which is that, again, Casey is rather delightful.
00:29:26.000As a cancer-surviving mother of several children, she also happens to be a pretty good political advisor to a guy who just won the state of Florida by 20 points.
00:29:34.000So, it is obvious that this is effectively a two-person race.
00:29:38.000The entire media are allied not against Trump, but against DeSantis in the primaries.
00:29:42.000Trump has joined them, which is why he's attacking DeSantis from the left.
00:29:46.000And you're gonna see a series of ridiculous hits On DeSantis, despite the fact that Trump, the person that is supposedly the most dangerous person in the race and the most dangerous person in America, is running.
00:29:56.000The media, they know exactly who they want to be the nominee, pretty clearly at this point.
00:30:02.000Okay, in just one second, we'll get to the latest on the national debt fight.
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00:32:14.000Okay, meanwhile, the debt ceiling is about to be hit.
00:32:46.000If the debt ceiling is hit, And Biden offers something, Republicans will be blamed.
00:32:52.000But Biden made a massive strategic error very early on here.
00:32:56.000Because he was high on his own supply and because his brain does not function properly, the President of the United States very early on said, I'm not going to negotiate at all over the debt ceiling.
00:33:05.000I want a clean debt ceiling increase with no cuts to spending, none.
00:33:09.000And we'll argue about the budget later.
00:33:10.000Well, that was never going to happen because Republicans have control over the purse strings.
00:33:14.000And Republicans actually did pass a bill with a very narrow majority that essentially Made the debt ceiling increase in return for keeping spending at 2022 levels.
00:33:25.000So this is not massive cuts to government spending.
00:33:27.000It's actually fairly moderate cuts to government spending.
00:33:29.000And Joe Biden said, I will not negotiate.
00:33:31.000This was such a stupid move by him, like a massive failure by Joe Biden.
00:33:35.000And it put him in a bad position because now it looks as though Joe Biden is the one who's intransigent because he is.
00:33:40.000And Kevin McCarthy has been able to hold his caucus together throughout all of this, and he's likely to receive a bunch of concessions from Joe Biden, including some actual cuts to spending, like cuts back to 2022 levels of spending, which again, The job of the Speaker of the House is to win as many concessions from the President of the United States as he possibly can because he doesn't control the Senate or the presidency.
00:34:02.000Which means that clawing back some of this and wrong-footing Joe Biden in the process, making Biden look weak, and by the way, putting Biden on thin ice with his own base.
00:34:11.000Because one of the things that the Republicans have held to is the idea of work requirements for receiving SNAP funding or TAN funding, right?
00:34:18.000All this government funding that right now is basically just given to you without you having to work a living.
00:34:24.000The Republicans are about to claw back some of that stuff.
00:34:26.000They're about to claw back some COVID funding.
00:34:30.000And if Biden caves on it, Republicans should take a victory lap.
00:34:33.000Now, listen, there are a lot of entrenched interests in sort of the Republican commentariat who will tell you to be absolutely purist, that we should absolutely let this hit the debt ceiling.
00:34:55.000But if Republicans are able to win concessions from Joe Biden, and if they're able to take advantage of the fact that Joe Biden made, again, a massive strategic blunder, and saying you're not going to negotiate preemptively is a massive strategic blunder, it makes you look as though you're stubborn and stupid, which is what Joe Biden is on this topic, then Republicans should take the victory.
00:35:12.000And that is a victory for McCarthy, for a speaker who was considered extremely weak when he took office, a person who was barely able on what was it, the eighth, ninth, tenth vote
00:35:22.000to get the speakership, to hold together a majority in the House,
00:35:24.000to get something through that actually carves away concessions from Biden.
00:35:27.000That's actually just, you know, take good news when you get it sometimes.
00:35:31.000So Kevin McCarthy, for his part, he said, Joe Biden isn't really negotiating,
00:35:58.000The Democrats are trying to claim that if they don't get a deal, they will somehow be able to unilaterally raise the debt ceiling, which is not really going to happen again.
00:36:08.000They keep trying to paint Republicans as crazy terrorists on this thing, but McCarthy is coming off as really moderate here.
00:36:12.000Here's McCarthy saying, listen, all we're going to do is spend less than we did last year, which, by the way, is more than any other year in American history.
00:36:20.000The underlying issue here is the Democrats, since they took the majority, have been addicted to spending and that's going to stop.
00:36:27.000We're going to spend less than we spent last year.
00:36:31.000McCarthy also makes the point we should probably stop borrowing money from the Chinese to pay, essentially, welfare queens.
00:36:37.000Are work requirements also still part of this?
00:36:39.000Or are you just talking about spending levels right now?
00:37:17.000And again, McCarthy's doing a pretty great job of sounding moderate there, which is exactly what the American people want.
00:37:21.000They just want some sort of sanity here.
00:37:23.000Meanwhile, Democrats are being as crazy as they want to be.
00:37:24.000Representative Steve Cohen, a Democrat of Tennessee, he says that Joe Biden should use the 14th Amendment to unilaterally raise the debt ceiling, which Joe Biden has already said he can't do, and Janet Yellen has already said he can't do.
00:37:35.000The validity of the public debt authorized by law shall not be questioned.
00:37:40.000Some legal scholars say that could apply to the debt limit.
00:38:04.000I think he's considered one of the finest attorneys and legal minds in this country on constitutional issues and others, and he believes it's a valid clause that needs to be foremost in the President's mind, and that you don't have to make a deal, and the whole debt ceiling is irrelevant.
00:38:20.000The Constitution says you have to honor the debt.
00:38:23.000So I think it's an ace in the hole for the President.
00:38:34.000Larry Tribe's piece in the New York Times.
00:38:36.000He says originally that you can't use the 14th Amendment to increase the debt ceiling, but basically because I want to, now I'll pretend that we can.
00:38:48.000The Biden administration somehow achieved the signal feat Of nuking, like, a Syrian shepherd and then claiming that the guy was a terrorist.
00:39:00.000Like, this one just kind of went over everybody's head.
00:39:02.000It just didn't get the kind of attention it should.
00:39:05.000This administration has a really nasty habit of blowing up random people and then claiming they killed terrorists.
00:39:09.000You remember they did this in the aftermath of the pullout from Afghanistan.
00:39:13.000They claimed that they had killed, like, a top ISIS-K member and it turned out that the guy was actually an interpreter for the Americans and we had basically nuked him and his family.
00:39:21.000Well now, according to the Washington Post, U.S.
00:39:23.000military officials are walking back claims that a recent strike in Syria killed an influential al-Qaeda figure.
00:39:28.000Following assertions by the dead man's family, he had no ties to terrorists, but was a father of 10, tending his sheep when he was hit by an American missile.
00:39:35.000Apparently the guy's name was Latfi Hassan Misto, 56.
00:39:38.000His family identified him as a victim of a Hellfire missile attack on May 3rd.
00:39:42.000He was a former bricklayer who lived quietly in a town in northwest Syria.
00:39:46.000They described a kind, hardworking man whose whole life was spent poor.
00:39:49.000The operation was overseen by CENTCOM.
00:39:51.000They claimed hours after the strike, with no evidence or naming a suspect, that the Predator drone strike had targeted a senior Al Qaeda leader.
00:39:57.000Now they say we are no longer confident we killed a senior AQ official.
00:40:02.000They say that maybe the guy was Al-Qaeda, maybe he wasn't, but maybe he was just taking care of sheep and we just decided to nuke him and then tell everybody that everything was fine.
00:40:10.000Asked about this, Jake Sullivan, who, by the way, how does Jake Sullivan still have a job with this administration?
00:40:14.000He was fundamentally involved in the entire Russia hoax, in planting the Clinton plan, the so-called Clinton plan, planting all the fake intel with intelligence officials so that they could push out lies about Donald Trump and the And the Russian collusion scandal.
00:40:31.000Jake Sullivan is still out there with the job.
00:40:33.000Here he was trying to explain why they had droned a shepherd.
00:40:37.000is walking back claims that a drone strike in Syria earlier this month killed a senior leader of the terrorist group al-Qaeda.
00:40:46.000The family of the man killed told CNN he was just a 56-year-old shepherd with 10 kids, zero connections to terrorism.
00:40:55.000Is that right, that the strike did not kill the senior al-Qaeda leader, it killed a civilian?
00:41:00.000And if it is true that it was a civilian killed, is anyone going to be held accountable?
00:41:05.000The Pentagon is conducting a full and thorough investigation.
00:41:09.000They will report the results of that investigation to the President, and we will proceed from there.
00:41:14.000So far, we do not have evidence to validate the claims being made in Syria, but I am going to withhold any judgment on what exactly happened here until the Pentagon's investigation is complete.
00:41:28.000It is amazing how this administration has a constant habit of just hitting the wrong things with missiles.
00:41:34.000It's like, they won't do anything about a Chinese spy balloon that floats over the entirety of the continental United States, but they'll knock down a weather balloon that's floating above Lake Michigan five seconds later.
00:41:41.000They won't actually do anything to stop the terrorists from taking over Kandahar and Kabul, but the minute we leave, they'll just kill an interpreter.
00:41:47.000In Syria, they'll just nuke some random shepherd who's tending to his sheep on a hillside.
00:41:55.000Meanwhile, this administration apparently also screwed up its estimate with regard to military aid to Ukraine.
00:41:59.000According to Reuters, the Pentagon overestimated the value of ammunition, missiles, and other equipment it sent to Ukraine by about $3 billion, according to a Senate aid and defense official on Thursday.
00:42:10.000They would say that specifically because they wish to give $3 billion more to Ukraine.
00:42:14.000So what they're saying is, we estimated, say, that we gave $20 billion in aid to Ukraine.
00:42:19.000Actually, we were supposed to give $20 billion and we only gave $17 billion, which means let's send them another $3 billion in aid.
00:42:23.000This is definitely one way of ending around Congress.
00:42:27.000It is something that does not appear to be perfectly clean.
00:42:30.000Here is Jake Sullivan trying to explain that one away.
00:42:33.000There was this very bizarre admission from the Pentagon this week of an accounting error that suggested that the US has at least three billion dollars that it didn't know it had that it can use for Ukraine aid.
00:42:47.000That's a hell of an accounting error and it provides a lot of fodder to critics of USAID Ukraine and critics who say there's not enough oversight going on.
00:42:59.000Are you concerned about this accounting error?
00:43:03.000Well, one thing I just want to make clear.
00:43:05.000That is not money that went out the door and disappeared.
00:43:08.000That is not a waste of that $3 billion.
00:43:11.000It is simply a tally of how much military equipment we have given them.
00:43:17.000I just don't understand why you think that makes it significantly better.
00:43:20.000That you're basically unilaterally devaluing the equipment that we gave to the Ukrainians so that you can sign another $3 billion check to the Ukrainians.
00:43:27.000Shouldn't that stuff go through Congress?
00:43:30.000Meanwhile, this administration, by the way, continues to not bring home Paul Whelan.
00:43:35.000In the middle of the Ukraine-Russia war, Paul Whelan, the ex-Marine who has now been in custody over in Russia for a significant period of time.
00:43:43.000He was given a 16-year jail sentence in 2020.
00:43:52.000The last time he spoke with CNN's Jennifer Hansler by phone was in December, shortly after the release of WNBA star Brittany Griner, the result of a second prisoner swap between the U.S.
00:44:03.000and Russia that didn't include Whelan.
00:44:06.000Today, he fears the possibility of being left behind again, but his tone is more optimistic.
00:44:14.000You know, I feel that my life shouldn't be considered less valuable or important than others who have been Okay, but he is still sitting and waiting to actually be liberated.
00:44:34.000Meanwhile, Brittany Griner, she's back playing in the WNBA after we released the Merchant of Death to bring home a WNBA player.
00:44:40.000Again, very, very bad trade and the only time anyone has ever cared about a WNBA trade.
00:46:41.000A woman is able to grow in her body another human being, nurture that human being for nine months, and then she has to somehow push that human being out.
00:46:50.000And then she can begin to nourish that new human being with her own body.
00:46:55.000It's an amazing, unbelievable thing to watch.
00:47:00.000Anybody who's not religious, watch a childbirth and I challenge you to question whether miracles exist because it's every single time, it's just a miracle.
00:47:09.000The fact that women do it repeatedly is a miracle in and of itself.
00:47:12.000My wife's done it four times and the amount of you know pain and suffering that it takes to actually do that and then you go back and do it again because this is an important thing.
00:47:19.000You put your own body on the line to bring another human being into the world.
00:47:23.000I mean it's just the most giving unbelievable thing in the entire world.
00:47:26.000It also leads to political thoughts like anybody who believes that two minutes before this baby exited my wife this baby was not a baby is out of their mind.
00:47:34.000You have to be a complete nutcase to actually believe that in the 9th month of pregnancy, or the 8th month, or the 7th month of pregnancy, or the 6th month of pregnancy, that what is inside the womb is not a human being.
00:47:44.000And you have to be totally crazy, because you can see the baby coming out.
00:47:49.000And when the baby comes out, it is materially no different than when it was inside.
00:47:52.000And yet there are really people in this world who believe that it was not a baby when it was... The woman has a right to choose, even at that moment, which is just utter craziness.
00:48:00.000It's utter, absolute insanity and craziness.
00:48:02.000But the amount of gratitude that I have for the Almighty, for giving us a healthy child, and the amount of gratitude I have for the medical staff for helping to make all of this happen.
00:48:12.000Modern medicine is an incredible, incredible thing.
00:48:15.000And the amount of gratitude I have for my astonishing wife, who's astonishing in every single way.
00:48:19.000She not only has the babies, but then takes care of the babies, and then of course she's a doctor on the side, and somebody who really has her priorities straight, somebody who knows what her priorities are in life and really takes care of our children.
00:48:30.000It's an astonishing, astonishing thing.
00:48:33.000I could not be happier or more grateful.
00:48:35.000For baby number four repopulating the earth with baby Shapiros, and of course he is a very squishy baby.
00:48:51.000Remember last week I told you that the Dodgers had been pressured and had finally caved to common sense, at least in a minor way.
00:48:58.000They continued to do their pride night, the L.A.
00:48:59.000Dodgers, but then they decided that they were going to uninvite the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, which is a wild, radical, insane, anti-religious group.
00:49:10.000They dress up like nuns and then promote promiscuity and indecent behavior.
00:49:18.000And it turns out that that offends a lot of people.
00:49:21.000Particularly in Los Angeles, which has a heavily Catholic fan base.
00:49:24.000And so the Dodgers backed off, but well now they've backed off the backoff.
00:49:28.000They said, After much thoughtful feedback from our diverse communities,
00:49:31.000honest conversations within the LA Dodgers organization, and generous discussions with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence,
00:49:36.000the LA Dodgers would like to offer our sincerest apologies to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence,
00:49:40.000members of the LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign community, and their friends and families.
00:49:44.000We have asked the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to take their place on the field
00:49:47.000at our 10th annual LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign pride night, June 16th.
00:49:51.000We are pleased to share that they have agreed to receive the gratitude of our collective communities for the life-saving work they have done tirelessly for decades.